Anaforická funkce výrazu ten v gramatikalizační perspektivě

• Authors: Zíková Magdalena

Title variants

EN

Anaphoric function of the demonstrative ten in grammaticalization perspective

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In the paper, the anaphoric use of the demonstrative ten in spoken narrative discourse is examined. Two questions are of main concern to the study: (i) frequency and contextual distribution of the demonstrative, and (ii) grammaticalization potential of the demonstrative in anaphoric function. Concerning (i), all nominal phrases containing the demonstrative ten (determined NPs; 230 in total) are contrasted with their non-determined lexical counterparts, i.e. those not containing the demonstrative (bare NPs; 400 in total). Each item is then inspected in terms of a set of linguistic parameters. It turns out that determined NPs dominate over the bared NPs in the data — speakers use them in more than 60 % of repeated mentions. The most decisive factors are animacy of the referent and sentence perspective (theme — rheme structure). In this way, two functions are identified in the anaphoric use: (i) contextualizing, and (ii) strongly demonstrative, none of which seems to be a plausible source of potential grammaticalization of the demonstrative into a definite article.

Keywords

CS

demonstrativum ten; anaforická funkce; narativní diskurs; gramatikalizace; aktuální členění

EN

demonstrative ten; anaphoric use; narrative discourse; grammaticalization; theme–rheme structure

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studie z aplikované lingvistiky - Studies in Applied Linguistics
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 9
• Issue: Special Issue 2018
• Pages: 106-123

Contributors

author

Zíková Magdalena

• Ústav obecné lingvistiky FF UK